Unseen

“He was chopping it up. That was sketchy.”-- On November 16th, 2012, 13 year-old Megan Zanella witnesses her mother being attacked by her foster sister, Sabrina Zunich. Tragically, the police arrive too late to save Megan’s mother, Lisa Knoefel, and Sabrina is apprehended at the scene. However, in the subsequent investigation and trial, Megan and the police come to understand that nothing is as it...

“Come quickly because I’m afraid.”-- On September 20th, 2013 9 yo Andrew Hockensmith frantically calls 911 from the back room of his parents' pawnshop, where an armed gunman has just stormed in. In spite of the danger, the boy only cares about saving his baby sister and urges the dispatcher to hurry and send help. Just 6 minutes later, police enter the pawn shop and are horrified to find 3 bodies....

“One day, I kissed my 6 year old son goodbye, and never saw him again”-- John Walsh never wanted to be a man hunter. In 1981, he was forced to look for his missing son only to find him dead. When 47 year old Ed Smart appeared on national TV pleading for the return of his 14 year old daughter, John took the weight of the investigation through America’s Most Wanted. This is what you haven’t seen on...

“Am I scaring you little girl?”-- 8-year-old Jennifer is scared of the dark, and on the one night her mother asks her to sleep in her own room, she wakes up in the arms of a police officer carrying her out of the house in the middle of the night. The man wants her to believe that she is safe, but she realizes he doesn't have a badge as he drives off to a remote area. Later that night, her kidnappe...

“I think he’s trying to lure me somewhere”-- On October 19th, 2018, a strange man is seen lurking around a college campus, hiding his identity under a Deadpool costume. The same day, 21 year old Lauren McCluskey calls the police to report threatening text messages harassing her and inviting her to a supposed funeral. The young student is doing everything she can to try and get help, but no one is...

"Did you hurt him?" -- February 2013: Dr Phil is sitting with one of his guests backstage, Mark Redwine, who appeared on the show with his oldest son Corey ,and ex-wife Elaine Hall, in an effort to find his the youngest boy Dylan, who has been missing for the past three months. Mark was the last person to see Dylan, and yet, on Dr Phil’s set, he has no answers to any of Elaine or Dr Phil's questio...

“Are the little kids asleep?”-- March 11th 2017 – 14 year old Arden Summers drives her younger siblings back to her mother’s home, following her dad’s secret orders. Hours later, an employee of a nearby Walgreens calls 911 after seeing a tied up woman run out of a car: the woman is Alisa Mathewson – Arden’s mom. Before the police can arrive, the car drives away with Alisa. Nobody knows where they...

“She hung on for me, her girls, and for justice” -- August 2nd, 2015, Gahanna police receive a frantic 911 call from a Speedway gas station, that a woman is set on fire. As she is rushed to the ER, her boyfriend tells a bizarre story that she caught on fire while lighting a cigarette. No one expects her to survive, with a 110% mortality rate, but 7 months later, she miraculously wakes up. Only she...

“I hid so he wouldn’t see me.” -- March 7th 2014, the bodies of a young couple Britney Cosby and Crystal Jackson are discovered behind a convenient store dumpster, Port Bolivar, Texas. With very little clue of when and where the murder happened, the police visit their fathers, who have been both furiously against their relationship. Both struck by the news and dissolved in tears, could one of them...

#Sayhername -- It’s 9:30 PM on July 22, 2018, when 18-year-old Nia Wilson is on her way home with her 2 older sisters at MacArthur BART station, but none of them are aware that a man has been following them. The images that were caught on the train’s CCTV will spark outrage in the US, and start a family’s journey of putting a killer behind bars and making sure everyone remembers the life of Nia. C...

"Could you kill someone with horse tranquilizer?" -- March 23, 1993. Haylei Jordan is 8 when her mom asks her if she wants to leave everything behind. The little girl doesn't realize that her mother has just cut off her ankle monitor and wants to take her daughter on the run. March 18, 2002. Almost a decade later, Haylei is faced with another terrible decision after years of turbulence and uncerta...

“Mama, don’t leave me here” -- On May 12th, 2003, 13-year-old Tyler Edmonds walks into the police station in Starkville, Mississippi with his mother, but as soon as he arrives, cops separate mother and son, and bring Tyler to an interrogation room, alone. He doesn’t know this yet, but his own big sister has named him as the murderer of her husband, Joey Fulgham. Alone, confused, and scared, Tyler...

“Could you untie me please?” -- It’s the early hours of June 7th, 1995. Detective Bill Lindsey is carefully taking pictures of a crime scene with two dead bodies, 34-year-old Mary Phillips, and her 11-year-old daughter Lacey. After having photographed the young mother in her office, he turns to the little girl on the chair, head down and covered in blood, but something unexpected happens: when his...

“Why did you lie to me?” -- January 15th, 1974, 15-year-old Charlie Otero is dropped off at school by his dad just as every other day, but only a few hours later, he would come home to unimaginable horror: his family was the first target of the BTK killer. With no evidence on who did this, nightmares follow Charlie as he fears for his own safety, while the BTK attacks more and more people. It woul...

“I can't die – I have to save my girls” -- At 11:05 AM, on the 31st of January 2004, a 911 operator answered the phone to a woman breathing heavily, but not saying anything. Another call comes through, and this time an address is given, but when the police arrive at the scene, they only find an empty handgun case, sweatpants, and a large red stain on the carpet. With time running out, and just a f...

March 17th, 2017: a woman calls 911 in Michigan after hearing strange noises from across the street. As she steps outside to see what’s going on, her neighbor cries out so loudly that the operator can hear it on the other end of the line. May 28th, 2022, Five years later, two calls come into 911 in Florida - a woman is frantically alerting the authorities that something strange is happening across...

“I can’t just let him kill me” -- July 7th, 2009: Nancy Tyler, handcuffed to a wall, knows that the stand-off between the police and her ex-husband can’t go on. The mother of two is left alone by her captor for the first time in 12 hours, and this is her final opportunity to escape her hostage situation before he snaps again. External Footage from: "Domestic Violence Survivor Speaks 10 Years After...

"Is he going to kill us?" -- On the early morning of December 4th, 1997, 10 year old Amber Daniels is standing in the middle of a dirt road, barefoot, in her pyjamas, faced with an impossible choice: run away on her own from the man who kidnapped her, or stay with him to try and save her sisters. What happened to her family the previous night, now known as the Santa Claus killings, would only be s...

“She doesn’t know what’s coming, but we do” -- It’s just after midnight on July 9th, 2011 when a CCTV camera of the Leili home captures Niqué, completely unaware that this would become her last known footage before her disappearance. Niqué’s 19-year-old daughter Alex is quickly suspicious of her step-dad Matthew, but her younger half-sisters, Amanda and Rebecca, firmly believe their dad is doing e...

“Mommy told me bad guys killed my daddy” -- April 6th, 2010, 5 YO Patrick Morrissey wakes up in the middle of the night. He sees his parents being pushed inside his bedroom by a gunman. In those few panicked seconds, he notices both of them are tied up. Petrified by fear, Patrick can’t move and keeps his eyes tightly shut. Suddenly, shots are fired and the house is set alight. The little boy knows...

“No one’s looking for you” -- September 16th, 1995: 13-year-old Jessyca Mullenberg wakes up in the back of a car. Her hands and feet are tied and she doesn’t recognize the scenery around her. For the next 104 days, Jessyca’s mother will do everything she can to find her missing daughter, but time is running out, as Jessyca’s captor tries to make her forget who she is. However, one episode of Ameri...

“Nobody was looking for the girls, except my family" -- On December 29th, 1999, as high schooler Ashley Freeman turns 16, she invites her best friend Lauria Bible for a fun sleepover, and what would happen to the entire family during that night, would become a 20-year mystery, involving the cartel, local rings, and even the entire police department as a suspect, a mystery that only Lauria's parent...

“Oh my God, we got attacked!” -- It’s Halloween night, 2004. 911 dispatch receives a distressing call from a woman saying her roommates need help: Lauren Meanza just survived a horrible home invasion that took the lives of her two friends. The hunt for their attacker begins, even going to psychics for potential answers, but nobody suspects that the killer is hiding in plain sight, and Lauren will...

“I think I got mom’s blood on me.” -- On February 22nd, 1991, Dede Rosenthal disappeared from her Cherry Hill apartment: there were no signs of any disturbance, and the case grew cold, but no one ever expected that only 4 years later, another crime took place but this time, to Dede’s neighbor. However, 14-year-old Jennifer Wertz survived the night and would become the key to the mystery of Dede’s...

“Mommy, I want to come home” -- It’s March 20, 2011, and a disturbing video entitled “Don’t hurt me mommy” is uploaded to YouTube, showing young mother Christine Belford with her 3 children in the street, being secretly filmed. 4 years earlier, in September of 2007, Christine frantically called the Newcastle police department, telling them her 3 daughters had been kidnapped. What had started in 20...